The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document ...

The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

Object databases are also suited for applications that are not necessarily based on an object model, but use a large number of in-memory indexes that are difficult to store in a relational database.

Relational databases are table oriented: visualizing data as a collection of one-dimensional tables, which that can be manipulated through by relational calculus.

Java Persistence API: A look deeper The Java Persistence API is a lightweight, POJO-based framework for object-relational mapping. The mapping between Java objects and a relational database is ...

When relational databases took hold in the mid 1980s, pointer and table-based infrastructures made the retrieval and manipulation of disparate records much easier.

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Unlike some object-oriented and object-relational database systems, db4o does not require you to pass your code through an instrumentation pre- or post-compilation step.

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The buy will give the Fremont, Calif., company a JDO tool that will be used as a basis for multiple data-access products that connect applications to both object and relational databases. JDO ...